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KOLKATA: Asserting she will not allow compromising safety aspects for the sake of business, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said there will be more continuous monitoring of markets from now on. "We do not want to come in the way of traders carrying on their business, we don't want to run over things with bulldozer, but there can be no way we can allow playing with precious human lives by compromising with the safety aspects...

KOLKATA: A devastating fire swept through a private hospital in Kolkata in the early hours of Friday killing close to 90 people, mostly patients, and raising questions about lack of regulation and possible cutting of corners in pursuit of profit in India's rapidly growing private healthcare sector. The West Bengal government reacted swiftly, cancelling the licence of the hospital, known as AMRI, and ordering a police investigation. Six executives of AMRI, a joint venture between Kolkata-based Emami and Shrachi groups, were taken into custody after they surrendered at Lalbazar, the police headquarters.

YAMAYAKI When: January 24, 2015, Where: Nara, Japan Burning up the entire Mt Wakakusayama is held every year on the fourth Saturday of January. A torch is lit with sacred fire at Kasuga Taisha Shrine. This sacred fire is carried down to a small shrine at the foot of the hill by a parade of Buddhist monks. First, the hill is ignited with the sacred fire by members of Kofuku-ji, Todai-ji and Kasuga Taisha. Then 200 fireworks are launched and the hill continues to burn for some 30 minutes.

BANGALORE: Five people are feared dead in a major fire that broke out on Tuesday at the Carlton Towers, which houses many commercial offices and establishments, on Old Airport Road at Domlur here. Eight fire tenders have been rushed to the spot, fire brigade sources said. The fire broke out at 4.30 pm, they said. Eyewitnesses said that the rescuers were bringing down people using fire hoses down the sides. The fire department has not been able to assess how serious the fire is. People broke open glass panes with bare hands and any other material they could lay hands on to let out the smoke.

SURAT: After visiting the IOC terminal where a storage tank was engulfed in a major fire , Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily today said a high-level investigation into the incident has been ordered and a report is expected by January 20. Two persons were killed in the fire in storage tank number four of IOC terminal in Hazira which was contained after a 21-hour operation by the fire brigade team. Moily appreciated the work of local administration, fire brigade and other public and private sector companies for the massive disaster management operation and containing the fire which had started yesterday afternoon.

KOLKATA: Bio-diesel producers across the country are in a fix. While the circular issued by the petroleum ministry virtually bans sale of bio-diesel, the railways and The Brihan-Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking have floated tenders for purchase of bio-diesel. In fact, the circular issued by the ministry requesting state governments to 'ensure that unauthorised sale and possession of bio-diesel in the market is checked and eliminated' irked bio-diesel producers compelling some of them to contemplate downing shutters.

AHMEDABAD: Officials of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) today averted a major mishap when an attempted pilferage from one of its wells near Kadi town in Mehsana district, about 60 kms from here, resulted in leakage of oil in the surrounding areas. According to company officials, the pilferage attempt was made late last night in the well number SK 121 of South Kadi field and came to light early today. "The attempt of pilferage resulted in flow of oil reaching upto 10 meters height and all surrounding area was swamped by uncontrolled flow from the well", a release from the company said tonight.

Bill Gates probably owns the most hyped house in the whole world, if you ignore residences of the British Royalty. Called Xanadu, it is said that this house is so intelligent that it does just about everything short of running Microsoft Inc. Now wouldn't if be wonderful, if somehow you could also inject a similar kind of intelligence into your home? But how does one do that? After all, Gates is not just the world's richest man, he also owns Microsoft with probably a zillion programmers at this command.

MUMBAI: As probe into the mysterious blazing inferno of the Mumbai Mantralaya goes on, the incident asks of everyone to check up on such buildings in the city which houses thousands of paper documents, faulty fire alarm systems and wooden structures, which could burst in to flames at any given time. Andheri houses many corporate offices, residential societies, IT parks and shops packed like sardines in a can. These offices are brimming over with papers and files and have cubicles made of plywood; the shops scattered with inflammable commodities making these establishments in Andheri precariously close to a disaster similar to the one in the Mantralaya.

KOLKATA: The caretaker of the 150-year-old heritage building on upscale Park Street and his assistant were arrested on Wednesday booked on negligence and other charges as the toll in the fire that swept through it climbed to 24 with the recovery of eight more bodies. An FIR was lodged by the fire brigade against caretaker Tarun Bagadia along with his assistant Ramshankar Singh, Kolkata Police Commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakraborty said. The promoter of the seven-storey Stephen Court building is absconding, police said.